The purpose of the project is to provide professional and personal development processes to more than 50 Colombian girls who do not have families and have gone through situations of rights' infringement, who seek to achieve their Life Plan goals and providing for an autonomous, independent and meaningful life.
According to the Colombian Survey of Quality of Life (2018), the illiteracy rate for the total population 15 years of age and over was 6.4%. In 2012, 155,280 women dropped out. School dropout rates in girls between 15 and 16 years old is 27.4% and is associated with gender differentiated roles: girls are pressured or forced to abandon their studies to devote themselves to housework, to the care for other people, face pregnancies at an early age, among other situations that violate their rights.
Provide integral development processes at-risk girls and adolescents in Colombia, developing technical and professional skills that contribute towards the realization of their Life Plan. The processes include technical courses, vocational guidance, life skills workshops, specialized therapeutic care, artistic programs, university tuition, as well as transportation, health, food and study materials. All of this helps girls and adolescents reach an autonomous, independent and meaningful life.
With the programs, we are contributing to the formation of adolescents and young people qualified and competent in the work environment, able to positively face the challenges they encounter and to contribute to the transformation of Colombian society, thus breaking the circles of poverty and right infringement that have marked generations of their families and starting new paths towards their complete realization.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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